UPDATE (Dec 2010) : I wrote this article in fall 2008. Now the files of PINTOS have changed and so this tutorial may not work. But still you can read to take hints on setting up.
Just wanted to share my experience of installing Pintos on Qemu.
First of all install Qemu. In Ubuntu it is available in Universe repository. It is also available in Fedora repositories.
Ubuntu users can install qemu by typing in:
$ sudo apt-get install qemu
and Fedora users can install Qemu by typing in the following command as root user:
# yum install qemu
Note: Fedora 9 users need to make some extra changes as mentioned by Mukund in his comments to the post.
Now we are ready to install Pintos. Download Pintos from here. Extract it in some directory say ~/cs342/
Copy the perl scripts ‘backtrace’ , ‘pintos’, ‘pintos-gdb’, ‘pintos-mkdisk’ from ~/cs342/pintos/src/utils to a directory in PATH. I have added ~/bin into PATH. so i copied these scripts in ~/bin
Now open the script ‘pintos-gdb’ (the one you copied in the ~/bin) in any text editor. Find the variable GDBMACROS and set it to point to ‘~/cs342/pintos/src/misc/gdb-macros’. Now you have installed pintos-gdb.
Next go back to ~/cs342/pintos/src/utils and compile the rest Pintos utilities by typing make.
$ cd ~/cs342/pintos/src/utils
$ make
Copy the script ‘squish-pty’ in the ~/bin folder or wherever you saved scripts mentioned above.
Compile pintos :
$ cd ~/cs342/pintos/src/threads/
$ make
Now open the file ~/cs342/pintos/src/threads/Make.vars in any text editor. change the last line to:
SIMULATOR = --qemu
Next open the file ~/bin/pintos (the one you copied in the PATH) in any text editor and edit the following lines:
Line no.24: replace ‘os.dsk’ with ‘~/cs342/pintos/src/threads/build/os.dsk’
Note: Replace ~ with absolute path as perl doesnt identify ~ (Thanks to Kholu 
)
Line no.88 : $sim = “qemu” if !defined $sim;
Line no.110: --qemu (default) Use QEMU as simulator
Line no.111: --bochs Use bochs as simulator
This is all. Now you are ready to run pintos. Check your installation by typing in the terminal:
$ pintos run alarm-multiple
This will create 5 threads and sleep for some predefined times. You can see all these messages in the terminal as well as in a Qemu terminal. Now you are ready to implement changes and enhance pintos.
Happy Coding !!
